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Make a mission to Mars just by looking up
++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ My daughter wants to go to Mars. She might actually get a shot at it too, I suppose, as NASA doesn't have any plans to send anyone to Mars before 2030. My little girl will be 26 then, probably a bit too...Tags: NASA
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The Weather Page
Sun Reporter // Weather BloggerIf clouds clear in time, there's a terrific show in the western sky after sunset tonight. It is a close lineup (upper left to lower right) of planets Saturn and Mars, the bright star Regulus and a delicate crescent moon. Just step outside after the sky...Tags: NASA
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Scientists prepare gear to service Hubble telescope
GREENBELT, Md. - In about two weeks, 24,000 pounds of what may be the most thoroughly tested and closely inspected hardware on Earth will be packed into custom crates, mounted on flatbed trucks and shipped as "wide load" cargo to Cape Canaveral, Fla....Tags: IMAX, Engineering, Hospitals and Clinics, NASA, Cape Canaveral
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Bucks puts open space back on map
Bucks County is gearing up to fund the second decade of its open space preservation effort, but it may be next year before residents see newly rescued green spaces. Bucks expects to borrow the first chunk of money for the $87 million program in August or...Tags: Delaware, Natural Resource Industry, Farms
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Water traces on Mercury
Sun reporterInstruments aboard a Maryland-built spacecraft that soared past the planet Mercury in January have provided a real surprise: traces of water molecules in the hot little world's extremely thin atmosphere, scientists reported yesterday. It's not clear...Tags: University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, Colorado, Disasters, Astronomy
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Ex-NASA chief was flying high on tax dollars, report says
Washington BureauFormer NASA chief Sean O'Keefe wasted about $1,800 of taxpayer money using NASA planes to fly to Syracuse, N.Y., to play golf and to New York for an awards ceremony, according to a watchdog report released Thursday. Investigators found the trips, in 2003...Tags: Aerospace Manufacturing, Awards and Prizes, Society, General Electric Company, NASA
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On this day in history
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. In 1826 the nation's second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died. In 1831 the fifth U.S. president, James Monroe, died in New York. In 1946 the...Tags: John Adams, Alaska, Air France-KLM, Government, New York
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Scientists: Planet Mercury is shrinking
Mercury is not just the solar system's shrimpy kid brother, at least since Pluto was kicked out of the planetary club two years ago. It's shrinking. New measurements taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft earlier this year show that the innermost planet...Tags: NASA, Johns Hopkins University, Natural Disasters, Disasters
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U.S. not prepared for possible asteroid strike, group says
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA group of scientists, joined by a member of Congress, used the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska asteroid event this week to draw attention to their belief that the United States is not doing enough to defend the planet against the dangers posed by near-...Tags: State Budgets, San Bernardino (San Bernardino, California), John Johnson, Disasters, Public Finance
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Bulletin Board: A list of events in Palm Beach County
Today Acrylic painting classes, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Professional Artists' League, 19119 Winslow Terrace, Boca Raton. $25. Call 561-883-5033. All-American Cleanup, Sand Sifters Beach Cleanup, 8-10:30 a.m., Oceanfront Park, 6451 N. Ocean Blvd., Ocean Ridge....Tags: Roman Catholic, Siemens, Starbucks Corporation, Minority Groups, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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